Re: A tale of a programming conlanger
From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
Date: | Thursday, August 19, 1999, 21:21 |
If not javascript, maybe a perl script. I know there is at least one
free webspace provider (graffiti.net) that lets you enter your own
perl scripts.
Maybe we could use Charles's, or rip off some from Chris Pound's
page.
Ed
BP Jonsson wrote:
> At 21:49 +0200 19.8.1999, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> >I'm now working on adding digraph-analysis, with both pre-defined and
> >guessed digraphs, and maybe later I'll make a config-file and add para-
> >meters 'n such.
>
> IMHO it would mostly suffice, and indeed be interesting in itself, to
> simply list all the two-letter (and three-letter) sequences in the text.
> One usually has biases there too! I dont think any natlang has so many
> "nd", "dr" or "ndr" sequences as some of my conlangs. I simply happen to
> like those sequences; "ld" and "ldr" too.
>
> Now for the real challenge: a letter-sequence-statistics plus
> word-generator in javascript. That might attract people to conlanging:
> "enter some words or names, whose sound is pleasing/exciting/whatever to
> your ear -- from one or several languages -- and klick the button!"
>
>
> /BP
>
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> B.Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> <melroch@...>
>
> Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
> (Tacitus)
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